Submitted by Rose Choi
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The annual Mathematics Honors Luncheon was held at the UW Club on May 20th to recognize outstanding undergraduate Mathematics and ACMS majors. In addition to their award, each student was given a book reflecting their mathematical interests. A full list of this year's awardees and their accompanying books follows.
Award | Student | Book Given |
Outstanding Graduating B.S. (comprehensive major) | Art Sadovsky | A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar |
Outstanding Graduating B.S (standard major) | Jeffrey Eaton | The Volterra Chronicles by Judith Goodstein |
Jill Edwards | Hilbert by Constance Reid | |
Outstanding Graduating ACMS major | Kyotaro Hemmi | The Great Pi/E Debate: Which is the Better Number? (DVD) |
Outstanding Graduating B.A. (standard major) | Ryan Bowler | Schrödinger: Life and Thought by Walter J. Moore |
Outstanding Graduating B.A. (Teacher Prep major) | Megan Wagoner | Sir William Rowan Hamilton by Thomas Hankins |
Outstanding Student in 2nd Year Honors Calculus | Eric Nitardy | Euler, the Master of Us All by William Dunham |
Outstanding Student in 1st Year Honors Calculus | Ian Zemke | Counterexamples in Analysis by Bernard Gelbaum & John Olmstead |
Gullicksen Award | Nathaniel Bottman | Experimental Mathematics in Action by David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, Neil J. Calkin & Roland Girgensohn |
Benjamin Hayes | The Mathematician's Brain by David Ruelle | |
UW Freshman Medal | Chad Klumb | A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novelby Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal |
UW Junior Medal | Ting-You Wang | The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis |